The Columbia University Libraries are pleased to launch a new online exhibition, "Frances Perkins: The Woman Behind the New Deal." Frances Perkins (1880-1965) is no longer a household name, yet she was one of the most influential women of the twentieth century. Government official for New York State and the federal government, including Industrial Commissioner of […]
Category: Events and Exhibits
Book History Colloquium: “The Two Futures of Book History” with Michael F. Suarez
This week at the Book History Colloquium: "The Two Futures of Book History" Michael F. Suarez, recent co-General Editor of The Oxford Companion to the Book, will give a talk on the state of the discipline and where it might go. This event is free, and open to the public. Butler Library, room 523 6PM […]
History of Health Sciences Lecture Series
Wonders of Nature and Miracles of Medicine: Popularizing Science in Life Magazine, 1936-1972 Dr. Bert Hansen, Columbia graduate and professor of history at Baruch College of the City University of New York, will examine the role of LIFE magazine in shaping Americans’ ideas of science in the mid-20th century. LIFE was one of the most […]
The Book History Colloquium: Writing About Coffee, Reading In Cafés: Literature and Coffeehouses in Early Modern France by Thierry Rigogne
Well before Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Parisian cafés have shared a strong affinity with literature. In the seventeenth century, it was books, from travel accounts to medical treatises, that introduced the French to what was then a new, exotic, Oriental beverage. Writers immediately patronized the first coffeehouses, where they could discuss literature and […]
CANCELED: 10 Years of PubMed Central Event
National Center for Biotechnology Information Director David Lipman’s talk on PubMed Central has been canceled due to the severe weather forecast for Tuesday and Wednesday. The event will be rescheduled. Please check the Scholarly Communication Program website for more information. We apologize for any inconvenience. […]
Exhibition: Comics in the Curriculum
Graphic novels and comics are, for the most part, a recent addition to the Columbia University Libraries collections, and this addition reflects both the variety and sophistication of the medium as well as critical and academic interest. In recent years the collection has grown to include over 1,300 titles. The “graphic novel” is a format—narrative […]
Thomas Roma, Photographer and Columbia Professor, Exhibition at the Wallach Art Gallery
Columbia University’s Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery begins 2010 with a rare opportunity to view exhibition prints from Thomas Roma’s published works. Pictures for Books is open to the public from Wednesday, January 20, through Saturday, March 27. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery presents a conversation between the curator and artist […]
Curator Lecture Series: “Architectural Archives in Avery Library”
Janet Parks, Curator of Drawings and Archives in the Avery Architectural & Fine Arts Library, will speak at Columbia University on "Curator’s Choice: Architectural Archives in Avery Library." The talk, sponsored by the Friends of Columbia Libraries, is free and open to the public. Janet Parks has been Curator of Drawings and Archives at Columbia […]
“The Acropolis Museum and It’s Collections” at the Wallach Art Gallery
Join us for a talk by Dimitrios Pandermalis, President of the Board of Directors of the New Acropolis Museum, on "The Acropolis Museum and It’s Collections." This talk is presented in conjunction with the exhibition on the New Acropolis Museum, currently on view at the Wallach Art Gallery until December 19th. The Wallach Art Gallery […]
Book History Colloquium: “Candide in the Preserving Machine”
Since its initial publication in 1759, Voltaire’s Candide has been criticized, imitated, excerpted into shorter set-pieces, inspired renunciations and sequels, illustrated more than a hundred times by artists both anonymous and famous, sung as musical theater and comic opera, and canonized as a national treasure and an outstanding contribution to world literature. In this talk, […]